CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

German software giant SAP is under investigation by US officials for allegedly conspiring to overcharge the US government for its technology products over the course of a decade. The probe, led by the Department of Justice (DOJ), is focused on whether SAP and its reseller, Carahsoft Technology, colluded to fix prices on sales to the US military and other government entities, a Bloomberg report said.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We are all guilty of this one! We changed something, and we forgot to update the documentation. Even if you have the best intentions to do your best, it’s way too easy not to do it. Why is it so easy to skip? Assume you changed something, created a pull request, and followed all the defined processes before you can merge the change. When is the best time to update the documentation in this process?

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Martin Fowler

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Alessio Ferri , Tom Coggrave , and Shodhan Sheth complete their article on what they have learned from using GenAI with legacy systems. They describe how GenAI's ability to process unstructured information makes it much easier to build a capability map of a legacy system, tying the capabilities of a system to the relevant parts of the source code. GenAI is also useful for identifying areas of dead code, and has promise for better translations of a system between platforms and languages.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

System Initiative today made generally available an automation platform that creates a programmable model of an IT environment to provide an abstraction layer that enables software engineering to employ reactive code to manage IT infrastructure.

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

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Artificial Inteligence

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We all have scores of decisions to make every day, and we often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. But true efficiency sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful, and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped. Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps.

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

If we learn to hold better ‘normal’ conversations then we’re less likely to have to hold the ‘difficult’ ones. The First Officer came up to me, coffee in hand, and one for me. Unexpected. Very generous. That’s him. We were about to depart on our 9 hour international flight, 300 passengers and crew on board, […] The post The Gentle Art of Conversation Leaders Need to Master appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As we dive into the amazing capabilities of Optimizely One , let’s shine a spotlight on the Optimizely Data Platform (ODP). This simple tool unifies all your customer data in one place, making segmentation and personalization a breeze for your marketing team. With ODP, you’ll gain a complete view of your customers’ interactions and behaviors, empowering you to create personalized experiences, optimize your email marketing campaigns, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Grafana Labs, today at its ObservabilityCon event, unfurled a raft of additional offerings, including public previews of Explore Traces and Explore Profiles tools that make it simple to drill down into data without having to master a specific query language.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Earlier this week, we wrote about what startups are doing to help us live longer. No matter how long we manage to extend lifespans, however, we won’t be around forever. And that brings us to our next startup funding topic: Innovation and investment around death and end-of-life planning. Part of this was an excuse to re-use the above graphic, which had been mostly laying dormant since we last wrote about this theme four years ago.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The United Nations’ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, created last year to address AI governance issues, has made seven recommendations to address the risks with this technology in its first report, just published. The document, entitled Governing AI for humanity , highlights the importance of creating a global dialogue — the European Union is one of the few to have acted with its EU AI Act — by building a global fund that addresses differences in capacity and collaboration an

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to incorporate into their business strategies and operations – and their political advocacy – and how they will communicate this to their stakeholders.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Real user monitoring (RUM) tools are great if you want to give your developers a very high level view of the health of your frontend. But when it comes to actually debugging issues in your web app, you’re often left piecing together outputs from browser devtools, with details (if you’re lucky) from customer support tickets to replicate issues locally in hopes of identifying the source of the issue.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We are all getting older. But never before have we been getting this much older. In the U.S., at least one in six people is now over the age of 65. At the same time, in most developed countries older adults are accounting for an unprecedented share of the population. It’s a global phenomenon as well, particularly for the very old. Over the next 30 years, the number of people who are 80 or older will roughly triple worldwide.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Enterprise cloud vendor ServiceNow faced widespread customer frustration after a root certificate error disrupted services for over 600 organizations. The issue began early Monday morning when a key SSL certificate expired and affected the company’s Management, Instrumentation, and Discovery (MID) Server, leaving users unable to integrate applications, access updates, and manage critical operations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.

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Ooda Loop

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The report comes today from The Information, citing an unnamed existing investor who spoke to company leaders. It’s reported that talks are only in an early stage and that it’s not clear whether investors will agree to such a high valuation.

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Speaker: Conrado Morlan

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Ready to unlock your Amazon Echo's true potential? Here's how Alexa routines can automate your home, simplify tasks, and save you time with just a few taps in the Alexa app.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Have you watched an episode of “Antiques Roadshow?” If so, you already know how to correctly price a funding round. I can see you’re confused, allow me to explain. Picture the scene: A prospective seller has brought in a vintage watch for appraisal. They take it to a recognized expert who offers a well-informed (and neutral) perspective on what price it should fetch at auction.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year, but it has a warning for companies focused on adopting them: Don’t go it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Continuous learning is the key to having lasting influence in your career, yet a heavy workload makes it hard to find the time. To ensure you’re creating opportunities even when you’re feeling depleted or overwhelmed, try these five strategies: 1) Challenge your beliefs about your capacity; 2) Start with topics that solve urgent problems; 3) Don’t limit yourself to formal programs; 4) Make an emotional connection to learning; and 5) Work with your brain, not against it.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

F5 this week made generally available an integrated application networking platform that centralizes the management of load balancing, web and application servers, application programming interface (API) gateways and cybersecurity.

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Ooda Loop

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Researchers at Lumen Technologies have identified a massive botnet of compromised IoT devices controlled by Chinese spies. The hijacked botnets are being used to target both the U.S. and Taiwan military.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It seems every time a large generative AI company raises billions of dollars, one of the Big Tech pillars such as Nvidia , Microsoft or Google is leading the round. However, a look at Crunchbase data shows something surprising — corporate venture investments were actually down throughout the past two years. More than two-thirds of the way through 2024, U.S.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The European Union risks becoming an artificial intelligence backwater thanks to a “fragmented and unpredictable” regulatory environment that is damaging the technology’s development. That’s according to a blunt open letter and newspaper advertisement signed by 49 executives, researchers and industry organizations, notably including the CEOs of SAP, Spotify, and Ericsson.

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Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

Operating System

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Serving on boards is a vital part of what venture capitalists do. VCs who succeed at this will enjoy advantages, including building their own brand, increasing deal flow, and helping the companies they invest in perform better. To navigate board rooms more successfully, follow these seven tips.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

What's the difference between OLED and QLED TVs? Brightness level, picture quality, and price are just a few factors in deciding why you should buy one over the other.

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Ooda Loop

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Hackers are targeting the U.S.-Taiwan defense conference through a phishing espionage attack. Next week, the U.S.-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference will be held in Philadelphia. The conference will feature speakers from various sectors to address U.S. and Taiwan defense cooperation. The U.S.

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